St. Landry democrat., 1887-11-26


which has been several times before the
United States Supreme Court, and which has
always heretofore been sustained, has been
declared invalid in an opinion by Justice
BlachfOrd. The couyt holds that the fact
now made to appear for the first time III the
Driven Well litigation that the invention was
used in public at COrtlandt, \. y, by others
than Green, more than two years before ap-
pllcatlOn for patent was made, is a fact which
is fatal to the patents validity In the case
OF Charles w. and Frederick Siemens, ap-
pellants, against William Sellers and others,
ali appeal from the United States Circuit
Court for the Eastern District Of Pennsylva
MIA, an opinion was filed by Justice Bradley.
This was suit for alleged infringement of a
patent granted to the Siemens Bros. of Eng
land, upon their regenerating furnace. The
defendants claimed that the Semens Bros
took out an English patent for the same in
vention, and that the American patent eX
plred at the end of seventeen years from the
sealing OF the English patent, before which
time they ha,i not used the invention. The
court sustained the decree of the Circuit
Court IN favor Of the American users.
{. c. Creciliu>, cashier of the Fifth Ma
tional Bank in st. Louis, made application
in the United States Supreme Court to be re-
leased from custody on his own recognzance
on the second charge of Bank Examiner
F0rman The court refused to grant the re-
lease pending the action Of the grand jury,
which now has the case under advisement
In New York Judge Freedman gave judg
ment by default against GuZman BlancO,
President of Venezuela, III a suit brought by
George Wilson. a stakeholder in the Manoa
Company. 1t was alleged that Blancn con-
spired and secured! the revocation of a grant
OF 1000, 600 acres of land made to &. {. Fitz-
gerald to hold for ninety-nine years. Fitz-
gerald and the Manoa Company had posses
sion when the grant was revoked. The
amount of the judgment will be fixed by
jury. Wilson asked for s., 14, 900.
The State Department has been informed
by the British minister that his government
has deemed it necessary to rigdly enforce
the act of Parliament of 1S75, concerning
explosives which renders any person i'm
porting explosives in his baggage into the
United Kingdom liable to heavy penalties
in addition to the forfeiture Of the explosives.
William kibler and wife and others in
tereSted have made application for a man
damus from the court in session in Wilkes
barre, Pa, to compel the >usquehanna Coal
Company to produce the todie> Of twenty
six miners who were buried in No. slope Of
that company, al Nantlcoke, December Is,
1870, and whose bodies are still entpmbed in
the pit. If the petition is granted, it is
stated thar tho IN tho
would be $50 900.
At a meeting of Presbyterian ministers in
Pittsburg, resolutions were unanimously
adopted denouncng Sunday newspapers and
protesting against their publication, sale and
reading on the Sabbath day; also cntreating
all lovers of social order and the Sabbath to
withdraw their patronage from such papers,
and threatening to appeal to the authorities
to have them suppressed The resolutions
were sent to the ministers of other churches,
with a request that similar action be taken.
The second comptroller Of the treasury, in
his annual report, recommends the enact
ment of a statute of limitations applicable to
the prosecution of claims coming before the
accounting officers for adjudication. He
says that a statute of limitations working
both ways would bring about beneficial re-
suits, as barring old claims against the gov
ernment and old debts set up by the govern
ment against claimants. During the past
fiscal year 1,002 accounts, claims, &c, in
volving $l67 ,464, 113, were examined and set
tied. The reductions in the appropriations
since June 30, 1856, amount to so, ,332.
Chairman Phelps, of the Democratic State
central committee of Illinois, has appointed
committee to secure, if possible, the selec-
ton of Chicago as the place for holding the
next Democratic National Convention.
The executive committee of the Anti-pOv-
erty Society has met in New York and de-
MED that the society would desert the United
Labor party. Some friends of the move
ment, it is said favor the dropping of the
word Labor from the party title and sub
stituting a more comprehensive word.
At meeting of the joint arbitration board
Mine Operators, held in Columbus O., it was
decided to pay five cents advance per ton for
mining The advance dates from the 1st
inst, and will continue until May l, 1888.
The shoe manufacturers of the United
States met in New York to organize an asso-
citation for mutual protection against the de-
mands of their employees, in view of the
strikes at Rochester, Cincinnati and other
places. James A. Bemster, of Newark, was
elected president.